Life's cruel twists
One of my dearest friends (my daughter’s god-mother) called me at work yesterday a.m. to tell me that her brother had died from a massive heart attack. He had just turned 56 years old earlier this week. I had been fri…
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Buffalo's Wine Bar Craze
So I will be the first to admit I'm not the most knowledgeable person about wine. I do however love it and am very excited that two new wine bars have opened in Buffalo in the past several weeks. The Wine Thief on Elmwo…
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> Rock the Vote
much, much, much better than Aerosmith urging you to vote for whoever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQvw8rvcQxg
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lazy cold call
I have a day off today & it' the first one since before labor day that I have actually had the time to relax and unwind. So what do I get this morning? A cold call from some broker trying to sell me an idea for a trade!…
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Costume Cutback
The last several halloweens (with the exception of my sparse elf-hat appearance at e:ladycroft's halloween party two years ago) I've attempted to go make an usual costume making use of a well-known cultural reference th…
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The Stinger
So I have been in Buffalo over a year now and I thought I had my head pretty well wrapped around the regional specialties. I mean who around here doesn't know about Wings, Beef on Weck and crummy pizza? Last week though…
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We Bought a House!!!
We've been looking for about 6 months. It's been a funny journey, we must have gone inside about 25-30 houses. We started out in South Buffalo looking at single family homes. I grew up in South Buffalo, so I know the ne…
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Synchronized Debating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5g8Y_Jqo (from http://www.236.com/ keep an eye out for 'my friends' at the end of the clip) On a side note, I hardly know what to do with myself while I'm on vacation. I've already chec…
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and another post
making up for lost time I guess... Or procrastinating. One or the other. First- Trying to upload a new user sound. (seems I still have sufjan christmas music on there...) The new song is "Each Year" is by Ra Ra Riot. Ju…
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me bum hurts
i had what looked like two bug bites. turned into giant infection thing. must wear giant bandaid. can't sit on bum. ouch.
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A Roswell Saga & other strange things
As I am sure, the Roswell peeps probably know, Roswell Park does a memorial service for patients who die during a six month period. With my father-in-law's passing back in February, his turn was tonight. My mom-in-law g…
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Vegan goes to Africa in 1996
Me in Italy just before I went on the trip I am writing about. Ya, I know its obvious I am not drinking that water? Its sad because the picture in the background is our ancestral farmhouse in Italy and I accidentally re…
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winterizing
Is it actually snowing? I'm seeing little snowflakes here, but they went away. Funny, I learn about the weather after the fact from this website. I was going to blog about the country-fried steak, but I'd have to find t…
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Wanna hear a story?
Well I'm going to tell it anyway. First a little work story... So today I went to clinic. I was seeing the chairman's patients. Ooh la la. I've never done that before. So I went in to see this one guy... a new patient. …
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Yay I found the upload button!
e:mike looked like this on the first flight heading towards Atlanta. It was my first time flying with him and it was also my worst flight. It was the closest thing to turbulence I have felt. Definitely had my stomach dr…
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The best day ever
I programmed a very significant authentication system today on a whim and it worked. It was one of those exciting couple hours - bang - it works things. Not so usual for cross platform, cross server, cross OS solutions.…
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while we're on the subject
of prostatic massage... [Are we really on the subject of prostatic massage?] mJBTTnxcDfk What the fuck?! It's unavailable. It's Dr. Francis Fesmire, winner of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine http://improbable.com/i…
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NOODLES
OH MAN its been so long since I've last posted! It just kind of got away from me there. Plus a portion of the gap between posts was from not having internet access while I moved into a different apartment. Anways how is…
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Sex-retary
So a few years back I was a sexy secretary. I can't find the pictures, maybe I'll see if they are still on my camera and I'll update this. Anyways that goes against my whole anti slutty halloween. This year I'm thinking…
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Mean girls
It's not going to be a big party (like Friday) but some friends are gathering at my house to watch mean girls tomorrow night (Thurs). Call my cell for the address: 510-7086. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpg9xmsYgWU I …
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Political Costumes
NPR is looking for pictures of people dressed as politicians and or politcally current people. Maybe there will be some political costumes at the party? http://www.npr.org/blogs/daydreaming/2008/10/costumes_in_the_news.…
